On May 17, 2005, at 1:01 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > No ... it won't normally be faster to use your ISP's DNS first ... > > You will ask it a question ... it will ask the main server ... then > reply to you. If you ask yourself, it will cut out the middle man :) i don't believe that's necessarily a correct deduction. cutting out the middle man is not always good; if you ask your ISP's nameserver, your ISP's nameserver will quite likely be able to supply you with accurate cached information (especially if you're trying to resolve a commonly used hostname), thus reducing the overall load on the root servers. i doubt you'll see a significant difference, but you'll be doing everyone else a favor. -steve --- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v